Her research focuses on ethical foundations and the relationship between moral philosophy and social sciences.

[1] Gonzalez received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Navarra (1997) with an extraordinary prize for her thesis Secundum naturam.

[2] She completed her training thanks to a Fulbright scholarship (2002) with which she conducted postdoctoral research at Harvard University on "Naturaleza, cultura y moralidad en la filosofía práctica de Kant" (Nature, culture and morality in Kant's practical philosophy).

[3][4][5] Since 2010, she has been principal investigator of the interdisciplinary research group "Cultura emocional e identidad: Diagnóstico de las sociedades contemporáneas desde el prisma de las emociones" (Emotional Culture and Identity: Diagnosis of Contemporary Societies from the Prism of Emotions),[6] at the University of Navarra's Instituto Cultura y Sociedad (ICS), and of which she was scientific director between 2012 and 2019.

[11][12] She has written numerous articles in specialized journals as well as books on philosophy, ethics and society.